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Tim Daly, Jr.  
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 More options Jun 7 2002, 5:52 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: t...@ponder.intern (Tim Daly, Jr.)
Date: 07 Jun 2002 11:52:56 +0200
Local: Fri, Jun 7 2002 5:52 am
Subject: Re: contra graham

> (...) They are merely features that the programming language world in
> general, and Guido in particular, have chosen to reject. (...)

As newly elected leader of and speaker for the programming language
world in general, I hereby veto this decision to reject symbols and
sexps.

> (...) Programmers do not like deeply nested expressions. They like a
> language that encourages a style where expression results are
> assigned names. (...)

Let Programmer be a person who does not like deeply nested
expressions.  For all Programmers, Python is adequate.

> (...) Python could one day grow a macro feature (...)

With proper care and feeding, your language, too, could grow up one
day.

-Tim

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[My address is ,(reverse "gro.naknet@mit").]


 
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